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Black Market Reloaded is back up and running after being taken down on Thursday for security concerns.

On Thursday, the administrator of online anonymous drug marketplace Black Market Reloaded sent users into a frenzy after announcing the site would be shut down following a leak of its code. Less than 16 hours later, BMR's leader declared it was only a false alarm.

Early Friday, BMR's owner, "backopy" said he was back in business after realizing the leak did little harm to the overall operation of the illegal site. That means, unlike its competitors Silk Road and Atlantis, BMR will still remain up and running as a place to peddle heroin and handguns.

"After reviewing my code over and over I came to realize that I can still put it back up," backopy wrote.

Backopy reopened the site Friday morning under a new url--which like the first iteration, can only be opened on anonymizing web browser Tor--with "no major changes." Bitcoin transactions would be halted for the full day, backopy announced, giving users time to "clean up [their profiles]."

Thursday's leak rang the alarm bells for the BMR administrator after a German-speaking individual under the name "dosadmin" posted the site's source code in an online forum. That posting was followed by an explainer in which dosadmin noted, in English, that "it was not our aim to bring BMR down." The leak was published to garner attention before any serious security breach could have been made, he/she said.

"We just think that such mistakes must not happen as they can endanger the users and we think they must be published and not exploited," wrote dosadmin.

Launched around June 2011, BMR is believed to be the second most successful anonymous online black market behind the Silk Road. Authorities estimated that the Silk Road, which was seized by the U.S. government earlier this month, had about $1.2 billion in sales since Jan. 2011.